Name: Amsterdam
Brand: Birkhäuser
Price: 59.9 EUR
Availability: PreOrder
ISBN: 9783955536558

The book documents the most exciting projects in Amsterdam's current architectural scene, including floating houses, hotels in former bridge keepers' cottages, and carefully renovated cultural monuments such as the Felix Meritis or a bicycle garage under a harbour basin. The built showcase projects provide an insight into Amsterdam's urban resilience and innovative approaches to housing. Supplementary essays and interviews with the protagonists of architecture take a look behind the scenes of their ideas workshop. They focus, for example, on new forms of housing, adaptive architectural concepts and the rediscovery of the former port and commercial areas on the banks of the IJ. The contributions complete the picture of a vibrant and forward-looking architectural culture.

Urban Architecture and Living Environments

Amsterdam

<UL> <LI>Portrait of the Dutch capital and its dynamic architectural scene </LI> <LI>30 outstanding lighthouse projects </LI> <LI>Experimental buildings in existing structures, from small private houses to large public buildings </LI></UL>

Sandra Hofmeister, Chefredakteurin von Detail

Sandra Hofmeister, editor-in-chief, DETAIL

Amsterdam’s dynamic architecture sceneThe book documents the most exciting projects in Amsterdam's current architectural scene, including floating houses, hotels in former bridge keepers' cottages, and carefully renovated cultural monuments such as the Felix Meritis or a bicycle garage under a harbour basin. The built showcase projects provide an insight into Amsterdam's urban resilience and innovative approaches to housing. Supplementary essays and interviews with the protagonists of architecture take a look behind the scenes of their ideas workshop. They focus, for example, on new forms of housing, adaptive architectural concepts and the rediscovery of the former port and commercial areas on the banks of the IJ. The contributions complete the picture of a vibrant and forward-looking architectural culture. Portrait of the Dutch capital and its dynamic architectural scene  30 outstanding lighthouse projects  Experimental buildings in existing structures, from small private houses to large public buildings 

Amsterdam’s dynamic architecture sceneThe book documents the most exciting projects in Amsterdam's current architectural scene, including fl

Amsterdam

Urban Architecture and Living Environments

Edited by: Anneke Bokern, Sandra Hofmeister